Rochus Misch

Rochus Misch (29 July 1917-5 September 2013) was an SS Oberscharfuhrer and Adolf Hitler's telephone operator.

Biography
Rochus Misch was born in Alt Schalkowitz, Silesia, German Empire (now Stare Siolkowice, Poland) on 29 July 1917, and he was orphaned by the age of two; his father was killed while fighting with the Imperial German Army during World War I, and his mother died of pneumonia. He was raised by his grandparents, and he joined the Waffen-SS in 1937. Misch served in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler bodyguard, and his Waffen-SS regiment fought in the Invasion of Poland in 1939. In May 1940, he was transferred to Adolf Hitler's FBK bodyguard unit, and he moved into the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin in January 1945, where he became his telephone operator. Misch witnessed the suicides of many leading Nazis in the bunker, and he claimed that Magda Goebbels' poisoing of her own children was the most dreadful thing that he had seen in his life. Joseph Goebbels released Misch from service before he killed himself, and Misch was captured by the Red Army and spent eight years in Soviet forced labor camps. He was released in 1953, returning to West Germany to open a painting and interior decorating store. He died in 2013 at the age of 96, the last surviving occupant of the Fuhrerbunker.